The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, Volume 20Tayor & Walton, 1880 |
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Agathocles Alexander ancient annulet Antiochus Apollo appears Arsinoë Artemis Asia Minor Asiatic autonomous coins Ballæos belong Brit British Museum bust century B.C. Chron circ cistophori Cnut coinage Confessor copper crown Drachm Edward the Confessor Ephesian Ephesus Eucratides field figure former List goddess gold Hawkins head helmet Herakles Himyarite Hittite Illyrian Imhoof-Blumer Incuse square Indian inscription issued King Genthios legend Lissos long torch Lysimachus Macedon Macedonian magistrate's name magistrates medal Mion moneyer monnaie monogram Müller Numismatic numismatists Obv.-Head obverse Pellet penny period Persian Philip pieces Polybios probably Prytanis Recent find reign reverse Rhizon Rhodian Roman Royal Royal Asiatic Society shield silver Similar Skodra Small cross Society solar specimens Stamford struck symbol temple tetradrachms town Type:-Ruding weight Willett worship wreath Zeus
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Page 17 - The earliest phase of astronomical science we are at present in a position to refer to, with the still extant aid of indigenous diagrams, is the Chaldean. The representation of the sun in this system commences with a simple ring or outline circle, which is speedily advanced...
Page 13 - ... queue des autres, et ainsi le vice du cheval rend l'homme inutile. Pour faire au cheval un bon pied, si quelqu'un sait un moyen et plus facile et plus simple, qu'il s'en serve; sinon, d'après mon expérience, je dis qu'il faut ramasser des cailloux du chemin, du poids d'une mine, plus ou moins, les répandre et placer...
Page 161 - Province. 22 66 69 18 41 64 Total 238 province of Asia in BC 133 we have 238 magistrates' names. The question next naturally arises, was or was not the office of moneyer an annual one ? If annual it follows that our lists are nearly complete, and that not more than about forty names remain to be discovered. If, on the other hand, this magistracy was renewed once every six months or oftener, we must continue to expect that a great many more names will be discovered than we now know of. In any case,...
Page 18 - India, indeed, seems from the first to have lain in the direction of mystic diagrams and crypto symbols,4 rather than in the production of personified statues of the gods, in which it must be confessed that, unlike the Greeks, the Hindus did not attain a very high style of art.
Page 17 - As far as I have beeu able to trace or connect the various manifestations of tlii.s emblem [the Swastika], they one and all resolve themselves into the primitive conception of solar motion, which was intuitively associated with the rolling or wheel-like projection of the sun through the upper or visible arc of the heavens, as understood and accepted in the crude astronomy of the ancients.
Page 31 - So great was the veneration paid to this luminary, that, in order to propitiate it, they burnt incense three times a day — resin at its first rising, myrrh when in the meridian, and a mixture called Kuphi at the time of setting.
Page 94 - The city of Abydos, on the Hellespont, was founded under the auspices of Gyges, and his next step was to secure, if possible, the dominion of the entire Ionian coast. In this project he met with considerable success, but did not live to see the realisation of his dreams. His successor, Ardys, BC 660 — 637, prosecuted the war against the lonians with uninterrupted ardour, and would, perhaps, have succeeded in uniting the whole coast-line under the dominion of Sardes, had not the invasion of the...
Page 196 - Beatus dives , qui inventus est sine macula; et qui post aurum non abiit, nee speravit in pecunia et thesauris. 9. Quis est hie, et laudabimus eum? fecit enim mirabilia in vita sua.
Page 18 - Ilios" (pp. 353, 354). The author will not presume to question, much less deny, the facts stated by this learned gentleman, but it is to be remarked that, on the theory of presumption, the circle might represent many other...
Page 22 - ... May Pushan convey thee onward on thy distant road ; May Savitri place thee where the righteous abide, in the place whither they have gone. 5. Pushan knows all these regions : may he conduct us in perfect security ; blessing, glowing, allheroic, may he go before us, watchful and understanding. 6. Pushan was born to move on distant paths, on the far road of heaven and the far road of earth. He goes to and returns from both the beloved abodes.